I carry 100% of the time that I’m off my property in my home state (though I spend much of time in NYC, which is a whole different ball game). But concealed-carrying and open-carrying are very different things. My gun lives in the outer pocket of my shoulder bag, and therefore automatically goes anywhere that my wallet goes. But carrying at all while mowing one’s lawn, much less open-carrying while mowing one’s lawn, looks like either clinical paranoia or a desire to annoy neighbors who are uncomfortable with displays of firearms (or uncomfortable with residents creating the impression that the neighborhood is so dangerous, that people feel they have to be armed to mow their lawns — an impression which puts a damper on property values).
Do you not understand that it is illegal to carry concealed in WI? Do you not think he would if he could? He doesn’t want to break the law.
And your attitude is the reason people need to get desensitized to it. People that pose no threat carry out in the open. You know, like law officers do. Nobody is paranoid about that because they know there is nothing to worry about. We are already trained to recognize that law-abiding people carry weapons openly. Thieves are the ones that hide their guns. They don’t walk around with them in the open.
What bothers you more, obvious gang members concealed carrying or a guy that looks like you going about his business with a gun on his hip?